French-born, Tbilisi-based Ina Kacz is a DJ and producer whose vision
far exceeds the limitations of a genre, including one as multi-faceted
as techno. Her shape-shifting sets span a wide spectrum of styles and
sub-divisions, flourishing somewhere at the junction of acid-drenched
cycloramas, chiselled ambient breaks, twilight dubs and chrome-coated
industrialism. With her exquisitely fine touch and impeccable
understanding of the groove, the French artist pulls out a two-hour
jaunt into her pulsating headspace, packed to the rafters with
streamlined style collision, inch-perfectly engineered plot twists and
hair-raising momentums.
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Reclaim Your City 642 | Zisko
A true driving force both within and beyond the South-American techno
ecosystem, Zisko graces us with two hours of clinically laid down
big-room punch and genre-unbound, off-kilter rhythms on steroid.
Championing a sound both highly intense and surgically precise, the
Argentinian DJ and producer has us surfing a rogue wave of frenzied
analogue funk, sci-fi-informed industrial pound and proto-electroid
impulsions. Not one for the faint-hearted, Zisko’s mix is galloping
techno at its most eruptively driving and merciless, bound for
heavy-duty, mid-set apexes and hi-impact mosh pits down the basement.
Total smasher beware, this one’s cut from the heaviest alloy.
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Reclaim Your City 641 | Mari Sakurai
Taking over the RYC waves this week, Tokyo’s finest Mari Sakurai
punches in with a helluva 2-hour treat by way of introduction. Working
her way in the gap betwixt post-industrial opacity and heavy-duty
brutalism, Mari has been slowly but surely making a name for herself
with uncompromising sets spanning everything from cool-handed big room
pound to mazy abstraction and other bursts of mind-altering sonics from
way deep. Known for cutting a path of destruction with every of her
mixes, her RYC offering doesn’t depart from such intentions, and we’re
invited to a smorgasbord of claustrophobic hi-tech onslaughts and a
string of purely exhilarating, apex-seeking momentums. Hi-voltage
shockwave due for impact imminently.
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Reclaim Your City 640 | DJ HI-C
Six-time turntablism champ turned sleek tech groove-provider,
Japanese DJ and producer DJ HI-C has had many lives before settling as a
merchant of stripped-back, zen-like ambiences and mesmeric club
rhythms. Elegant and dynamic, his productions sit halfway deeply
organic, atmospheric blends and a further steely, hi-velocity strain of
techno. Mind-bending by nature, his mixes open a wide window into a
pulsating headspace, rife with ebullient bass drive and obsessive loops,
constantly pushing the envelope of danceable material as we know it.
Tailored to emphasize the impact of a limited number of components
rather than drowning his listener under an avalanche of sonic stimuli,
HI-C unleashes a storm of painstakingly textured layers and ripping
melodic stabs. Bringing together minimalism with soul is an art, and
HI-C is an absolute master at that.
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Reclaim Your City 639 | Bastienne
Hailing from Amsterdam, Bastienne has been making waves with her
impeccably laid-down mixes and carefully curated selections. Through
chiselled, laser-precise sets that showcase the breadth of her scope and
minutely woven floor narratives, Bastienne moves the cursor from
straight pumping house jack in Detroit fashion to Birmingham-style
techno hybrids, via rowdy electronics and forward-pushing dubs. The
result is a propulsive journey across techno music in the broadest sense
of the term, with all its sister genres, sub-divisions and offshoots
taking center stage by turn as Bastienne ensures the cocktail blends in
just nicely. No-nonsense, all-out dance floor-destroyer ahead.
Rotterdam-via-Berlin based outlet reuniting underground purveyors across the globe as they methodically scan and showcase various nerve centers from the techno Internationale.
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